2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies in the Far Western US Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Demography & Population Studies is the 345th most popular major in the country with 63 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , demography & population studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 22 demography & population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 demography & population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in demography & population studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in demography & population studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies in the Far Western US Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Francisco. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. USFCA is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in San Francisco, California. It awarded 10 masters’s population studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of San Francisco Demography & Population Studies Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Claremont Graduate University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Claremont, California, and it awarded 5 masters’s population studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Demography & Population Studies at Claremont Graduate University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Irvine, California, and it awarded 6 masters’s population studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UC Irvine Demography & Population Studies Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Berkeley landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Berkeley, California, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s population studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Demography & Population Studies at University of California - Berkeley
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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